Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. FORBESWhimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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